Example sentences of "[pron] [is] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that there is a good case for including magistrates er trailing clouds of glory as it were from Tudor times when the Justice of the Peace was local government and then historically through their membership standing joint committees , but I still find it hard to accept , and here with great regret I do differ both from the Noble Lord , Lord and the Noble Viscount , Lord , I is the part of the central government er to make at least five appointments for each authority somewhere between two hundred or three hundred appointments direct ? |
| 2 | His is the art of picture composition , and , such , his efforts are as invaluable to a production as that of his two other creative peers . |
| 3 | His is the monolith of granite , in memory of the victims of World War I and the tenth anniversary of the Republic in 1928 . |
| 4 | The hedonist has a privileged place in ethics ; his is the case which stands if every other falls . |
| 5 | His is the name that will sell The Miser , the Moliere comedy in which he 's travelling the country . |
| 6 | His is the priority over everything , and in him all things hold together . ’ |
| 7 | His is the sort of pedigree which has produced figures who have risen to the top of public life for generations . |
| 8 | I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch . |
| 9 | He runs the Government , oversees the Civil Service , the Armed Forces , the Security Services and , ultimately , his is the hand on the nuclear trigger . |
| 10 | John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains . |
| 11 | Yours is the skin most at risk from sunburn , premature ageing and skin cancer , and you need the strongest protection . |
| 12 | ‘ We all have our gifts , and yours is The Brain , Hilary , ’ her mother had told her firmly , guiding her away from dates and dances and the like . |
| 13 | Yours is the clear-sighted , undeceived vision of the ancients , who knew life for what it is and men for what they are , and did not flinch from that knowledge . |
| 14 | If yours is the kind of garden that is attractive to hedgehogs — lots of cover , plenty of natural food and close to other good habitats — then you could well find your offer of a house taken up this winter . |
| 15 | ‘ Yours is the shame , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Yours is the Star Letter as it is very helpful for readers to have an independent and ‘ amateur ’ view of a new product but also , we ca n't bear to think of you missing your magazine . |
| 17 | Someone 's the son of God , someone |
| 18 | Clients will not be allowed access to information about other private citizens which is in their file — either descriptive material or the fact that someone is the source of a report — unless the other person is happy that it can be shared . |
| 19 | They saw the God of Israel ( 9–11 ) : having a meal with someone is the essence of fellowship in the Near East . |
| 20 | Her island trip that year was to Pa/1ros , perhaps the most successful that she ever made : -it is the setting of her story ‘ In a Different Light ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ They broadcast the show and at the end of it Christopher Trace [ one of the presenters ] said something like , ‘ Whoever designed the Daleks really deserves a gold Blue Peter badge ’ , which is the badge they only award for very , very special achievements . |
| 22 | In other words , the knowledge which is the stock-in-trade of the academic community has a degree of reliability to it and is not pure whim . |
| 23 | Any swain within earshot who approves of her scream , and feels similarly inclined , is at liberty to rush to her aid and stop her , which is the sign for other suitors to halt their pursuit and file back to bed again . |
| 24 | They were sitting near a huge open fire in the lounge of a pub of that kind of indeterminate oldness which is the sign of constant use and development over many years . |
| 25 | This is why some combinations of drives from different manufacturers are fussy about which is the master . |
| 26 | The advent of live links raises interesting questions about which is the master copy . |
| 27 | But help may be at hand in the form of Holly , a dalmatian which is the middle of a phantom pregnancy . |
| 28 | Okay , perhaps the most important item that is the Paper U , which is the budget . |
| 29 | It has to provide an appropriate milieu for the sex act , to act as a channel for the menstrual flow , which is the shedding of the unused lining of the uterus when conception and implantation of the fertilized ovum has not taken place , and also furnish the route by which the baby exits . |
| 30 | The bond will be priced by the issuing bank at a spread above the reference gilt which is the 9% of 2008 . |